pollution

Though the State Ports Authority has been doing much to contend with land-based pollution from its machinery they're largely unable to regulate the nasty diesel fuel burned by cargo containers -- and the study by the Coastal Conservation League says health care costs from all that pollution could total some $81 million a year. More

December 31 marks the end of Charleston County's old trash solution: Burn it for energy. But the win for our region's air is now a problem for our area's ground. More

Here in the lowcountry we have the tides. They're great because each day the come in and lift up all the litter and suck much of it away from our marshes. More

The Post and Courier has penned a piece that notes South Carolina's energy production has surged over the last two decades, and that almost all of that increased capacity is coming from the target du jour: Coal. More

Consultants have discovered high levels of arsenic in the ground just outside the boundary of a coal ash waste pond at a power plant near Columbia. More

Folks were pretty alarmed when they discovered two chemical drums in Chauga River near the Georgia-South Carolina border. More

S.C. Statehouse Report's Bill Davis has written a good piece that explores South Carolina's next possible energy crisis: Too little demand. More

The New York Times recently published a great bit of investigative reporting about how ineffective the Clean Water Act has proven. More